Stephen Nowicki, Professor of Neurobiology and Psychology and Neuroscience and Faculty Network Member of Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and Bass Fellow of Biology

Contact Info:

Office Location:	137 Biological Sciences Building, 130 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 684-6950
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.biology.duke.edu/nowicki/

Education:

Ph.D.	Cornell University	1984
M.S.	Tufts University	1978
B.S.	Tufts University	1976

Specialties:

Organismal Biology and Behavior
Neuroscience
Evolution
Ecology and Population Biology

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Elizabeth Derryberry
• Irene Liu

Postdocs Mentored

• Kendra Sewall (2010 - 2012)
• Robert Lachlan (2007 - 2013)
• Rindy Anderson (2006 - present)
• Jonathan Prather (2003 - 2009)
• Jeremy Hyman (2002 - 2006)
• Christopher B Sturdy (2000 - 2002)
• Melissa Hughes (1994 - 1996)
• Mark Westneat (1991 - 1992)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Zipple, MN; Caves, EM; Green, PA; Peters, S; Johnsen, S; Nowicki, S (2019). Categorical colour perception occurs in both signalling and non-signalling colour ranges in a songbird.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1903), 20190524. [doi]  [abs]
2. Caves, EM; Nowicki, S; Johnsen, S (2019). Von Uexküll revisited: Addressing human biases in the study of animal perception.. Integrative and Comparative Biology. [doi]  [abs]
3. Searcy, WA; Nowicki, S (2019). Birdsong learning, avian cognition and the evolution of language. Animal Behaviour, 151, 217-227. [doi]  [abs]
4. Green, PA; Caves, EM; Zipple, MN; Peters, S; Johnsen, S; Nowicki, S (2019). Categorical Perception of a Carotenoid-based Assessment Signal. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59, E87-E87.
5. Dinh, JP; Nowicki, S; Peters, S (2019). Intra-diel improvement in song performance: swamp sparrows 'warm up' in the morning. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59, E55-E55.